Example sentences of "[that] [pron] are prepared [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Fraulein , I understand from Bruno that you are prepared to swear to a document that Corporal Blagg brought you some death certificates on the night when Herr Hochhauser — ( thank God he had remembered the name ) ‘ — the Standesbeamte from Bad Schwarzendorn was murdered . |
| 2 | Bricks , old tiles , new tiles , quarry tiles , Mexican , French or Spanish tiles , ceramic tiles , slate and even marble facing all look spectacular — provided , of course , that you are prepared to put up with the clattering noise from chairs being pulled up to the table and pushed back . |
| 3 | To do this you must know : what you are capable of , what you want out of a job , and your weak spots so that you are prepared to counter any negative questioning . |
| 4 | They will want to be sure that you are prepared to give your time to care for the children , that you will provide for all their needs and take them out regularly , and that you really do like small children ! |
| 5 | So while I take your point that you are prepared to give us all the information we seek , may I reserve the right to interrupt when it is absolutely necessary to do so ? |
| 6 | If a long time is spent teaching pupils how to present work and arguments neatly , insisting on underlined headings , dates , and sharp pencils , there are going to be problems convincing them that rough work is valuable and that you are prepared to spend some time looking at it . |
| 7 | In this case the basic data of a savings plan is simply the amount per month that you are prepared to save , the likely annual interest rate and the number of years for which the plan continues . |
| 8 | In fact , Tessas are a very tax-efficient way to save — provided that you are prepared to tie your money up for five years . |
| 9 | Neil Cochrane moved forward , sat down in an armchair facing her , and said , ‘ I am happy to see that you are prepared to rest a little , after all . ’ |
| 10 | Make it absolutely clear , as I did , that you are prepared to fight back at any time of the day or night no matter how painful it may be ; and that you will keep on fighting until the day you finally beat them . |
| 11 | The writer in us has to know that we are making it a priority , that we are prepared to let other obligations go in order to play with it , nourish it , accord it a central place in our lives . |
| 12 | You 've then got to go below that and say , this was achieved through actual and it is the advertising making the public aware that we are prepared to employ females providing they 're good enough . |
| 13 | Is the right hon. Gentleman saying that he would give a commitment on any terms less than those that we are prepared to give ? |
| 14 | How has it come about that we are prepared to describe a serious physical mutilation as a trivial adjustment ? |
| 15 | It was an immensely brave step for President Yeltsin to take , and on that basis I believe that it is right for the United Kingdom to change its policy on a rouble stabilisation fund — as an indication that we are prepared to support the reform programme that is now in place . |
| 16 | It seems to me that our leaders somehow or another have simply got to be persuaded that we are prepared to sacrifice a very great deal erm to secure erm a new attitude . |
| 17 | We have to assure counsellees that we are prepared to listen to their difficulties . |
| 18 | We have regularly said that we are prepared to put another 1p on the standard rate of income tax to ensure that people are properly trained and skill-trained , so that we can tackle the problems of the 1990s and try to achieve a much more dynamic and effective economy . |
| 19 | Of course , with the level and intensity of training that we are prepared to put into our trainees ' future , we do run the risk that a percentage of that investment will end up benefiting our competitors . |
| 20 | ‘ We have not received a request to meet the MPs to discuss the issue , but we have always said that we are prepared to meet anyone , anywhere and that position has not changed . |
| 21 | ‘ I think it is a mark of the whole-hearted dedication of our crews that they are prepared to give up their own time to attend these courses . |
| 22 | I accept that the Government have the right to determine the amount of money that they are prepared to give to local government . |
| 23 | They are so strongly committed to their unionism that they are prepared to go some way towards moving some of their evangelical principles into the area of private life and personal choice , rather than alienate non-evangelical unionists . |
| 24 | What is interesting is whether the women were there ready to work because they were marginal to the existing structure and were n't being allowed into the existing structure or , and I think there is evidence to show this , because they are actually more interested in being flexible , innovative and creative than in a tidy career track — that they are prepared to go nut and take chances . |
| 25 | Some of these parents may also wish , through adoption , to protect children against the social order , but they are ‘ real ’ parents in that they are prepared to go beyond their own concerns and hold the child 's interests as their priority . |
| 26 | Of course , two parties may announce before an election that they are prepared to go into coalition with each other but they can not guarantee the election result that would make that coalition possible . |
| 27 | So perhaps we should be thinking more about political education and perhaps we should be thinking more about encouraging them to be non-conformist in the sense that they are prepared to ask questions , to challenge and not to accept glib answers that teachers give out willy nilly … |
| 28 | IT IS something of a public statement of Carter 's record company 's faith that they are prepared to spend £20,000 of unrecoupable readies on a major aerodynamic lig for the British press ( faith that is vindicated , one could argue , by the band 's confirmed Biggest Ever Hit ‘ The Only Living Boy In New Cross ’ — Number Eight last week and rising ) . |
| 29 | That they are prepared to take on board such a past , one must hold in awe . |
| 30 | apply to the centre where they are enrolled and obtain written confirmation that they are prepared to liaise with and forward examination paper(s) to the selected examination centre . |